This article appears in The Cartoon Issue 2022.
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Melissa Pasanen is a Seven Days staff writer and the food and drink assignment editor. In 2022, she won first place for national food writing from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and in 2024, she took second. Melissa joined Seven Days full time in 2020, 18 years after the paper published her first (and last, for a very long time) freelance story on church suppers. During the intervening years, she wrote — mostly about food, drink and agriculture — for outlets ranging from the Burlington... More by Melissa Pasanen
Ivy Lynn Allie grew up in Connecticut, went to the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction and currently lives in Los Angeles for some reason. You can find more of her comics (and lots of other exciting stuff) at ivyallie.com. More by Ivy Allie